The legal path opens after Anabel, the first woman to claim compensation for screening delays that left her "a year with cancer without knowing it," received no response from the SAS since filing her patrimonial claim in June. This situation has led the association to initiate an administrative litigation process.

More than six months later, and after the legal deadline for administrative response expired, Anabel will lead the judicial demands. The Amama association anticipates that more legal actions will be filed as the deadlines for patrimonial claims from other affected women expire. The president of Amama, Ángela Claverol, lamented that the Junta "forces them to drag themselves through the courts".

About twenty women, members of Amama, traveled to the Seville courts to support Anabel, who is finalizing her lawsuit. She expressed her frustration: "I don't understand why they are making me go to trial, lose time and money when I am still in treatment, I had to sell my house and I don't know how I am going to face this because I have lost my strength."

Currently, Amama has filed around 160 patrimonial claims with the SAS that remain unanswered, with an additional 50 to 60 cases pending registration. Many of these claims will expire by the end of April and beginning of May, leading to new individual lawsuits, as "each case is different," according to Claverol.

Anabel's case, where she waited a year for a second diagnostic test despite suspicious mammography results, will serve as a precedent. Failures in monitoring "inconclusive" or "doubtful" cases affected 2,317 women, 90% of whom were at the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville, where Anabel is a patient.

Amama's lawyer, Manuel Jiménez, had previously warned that, in the absence of a response, they would sue the SAS. Jiménez stated that an attempt was made to reach an agreement with the Junta, making "more than 50 calls" without success, which forces the affected women into "long and costly" procedures.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Health, Antonio Sanz, has defended that the claims are following their usual administrative course, stating that "claims to the SAS have always existed, they are not new" and must be processed "always prioritizing women." Sanz also mentioned that "nine of the 14 complaints" related to this case had already been archived, mixing criminal and civil jurisdictions.

This announcement of administrative litigation lawsuits comes after the Superior Prosecutor's Office of Andalusia archived criminal complaints against senior officials of the Junta in early February, finding no evidence of a crime, although it did acknowledge irregularities in the management of the early breast cancer detection protocol.